[reidmain]

1. I love that about the language. The 80 character limit has never made sense to me. The resolution of our monitors is so high nowadays that if you've got to a point where linebreaks are making your code unreadable you've got the equivalent of a run-on sentence in English.

2. Totally understand. I've used generics in Java/C# and I've definitely run into instances where I would have loved to have them.

3. Xcode 4 is great for code competition and much better at reporting errors.

4. I haven't worked on massive projects where namespacing could potential be a problem. The 2 character namespace for each class has worked great for me. But again I can totally understand how someone could dislike this.

5. id is amazing. The dynamic nature of Objective-C is the thing I like most about it. Having to wrap ints in NSNumber does get old I admit but id combined with protocols removes so much of the need to cast EVERYTHING in Java/C# before you can perform something on it.

What do you mean by frameworks are incomplete? Third-party frameworks I can understand because there are a lot of novice Objective-C programmers out there making their code available but Apple's frameworks have been near bulletproof for me. Sometimes they are limited (which is Apple's way of forcing you to do things like they do) but in the end if I you need to heavily customize something you can access CoreFoundation and do whatever you need.